Surviving Stories

I was flicking through sites on my phone while enjoying my morning coffee when I read an advertisement for a writing competition. To be eligible you were required to write a story of between one and five thousand words about a situation where you survived or had beaten the odds. I thought I love to write; I could do this! I finished my coffee and went back inside and headed to my home office and started my laptop and open...

Love and hate, hand in hand, light, the shortest amount todayDarkness, winter coming, daylight ending way too soonDepression, lethargy waiting to set in and get in my waySolstice is a day of pain and hope for me as I await the return of the sun's raysIn the darkness I can ruminate about life and chances not takenLasting so long this day of the year, my mind races and runsI take advantage of the night's long length to test...